The production team was housed at the El Tovar Hotel at the Grand Canyon while working on location for this film.
The play by Beulah Marie Dix and Evelyn Greenleaf Sutherland opened on Broadway on December 31st, 1906, at the Herald Square Theatre. It ran for almost a year, closing in August, 1907, at the Lyric Theatre, after 210 performances. The cast included Julia Blanc, Minnie Dupree, Agnes Everett, Alice Gale, Wright Kramer, Miriam Nesbitt and Helen Ware.
This Cecil B. DeMille silent feature marked the first film appearance of Iron Eyes Cody. He played a Native American which he did for most of his career even though he was actually an Italian born in Louisiana.